It's fun to peruse Fox News once in a while, or I'd miss gems like this story:

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Iowa GOP Divided Over Push to Impeach Judges in Same-*** Marriage CaseIowa Republicans are at odds over a new campaign to oust the four remaining state Supreme Court justices who two years ago decided in favor of same-*** marriage.

State voters kicked three of the seven justices who ruled on that case out of office in November, when they came up for retention votes. Most of the remaining four won't face a verdict from voters until the end of 2016 -- but some Iowa conservatives do not want to wait that long.

Looking for early retribution, five state House Republicans last week introduced four separate resolutions, each calling for the impeachment of one of the remaining judges. Republican leaders in the Legislature have dismissed the move, saying impeachment is not the proper recourse and predicting the effort will fail. But the authors are not giving up.

The resolutions accuse the sitting judges of "malfeasance in office." They claim the judges "improperly assumed" the role of legislators, and "knowingly and intentionally usurped the proper function" of the Legislature. The resolutions claim their ruling created a "constitutional crisis" in Iowa by allowing different interpretations of the definition of marriage.

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You puzzle me, occasionally. There are moments you present as lucid and at least trying to function on above the level of a 2 foot simian. Then there are moments where you toss out little gems like that.

Legislators are supposed to have a social agenda. They get voted in or out of office based on their social agenda promises and their adherence to those promises once in office. Someone should sign you up for the Jay Walk All-stars.

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Legislators are supposed to have a social agenda. They get voted in or out of office based on their social agenda promises and their adherence to those promises once in office.

You're quite right. What I should have said was more along the lines of "Hey, supporting the Constitution is great. Let's toss out checks and balances and put forward frivolous legislation that will fail and just waste time. That's what we promised, right?"

Edit: As the article stated, it seems likely that come 2012, the judicial balance would shift back to a conservative majority. The legislature should simply wait until then, as opposed to trying for impeachment because they disagree with a ruling. Why even have separate branches of government then?

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"The idea is to uphold the integrity of the Constitution and this is our opportunity to do that"

They're not doing this to be against *** marriage - they're throwing out the judiciary for the sake of the Constitution.

You puzzle me, occasionally. There are moments you present as lucid and at least trying to function on above the level of a 2 foot simian. Then there are moments where you toss out little gems like that.

Legislators are supposed to have a social agenda. They get voted in or out of office based on their social agenda promises and their adherence to those promises once in office. Someone should sign you up for the Jay Walk All-stars.

But they're talking impeachment, no? Isn't that a bit above-and-beyond the call of duty here?

Don't get me wrong, I think they're out of their ever loving minds. "Conservatives" who push a social agenda are no better than liberals who do the same. To me both agendas are an affront to the ideals on which this country was founded, and to the practices that are supposed to set us apart from the rest of the world.

I just enjoy giving people sh:t when they forget where their brains are on Tuesday morning.

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Heck, even the ones getting recalled might. The threshold for a recall petition is 15% of the registered voters in the district. But they can still win the recall election by getting 50%+ of the votes.

I was mainly noting that not all the eligible WI state senators from either side are being recalled.

Heck, even the ones getting recalled might. The threshold for a recall petition is 15% of the registered voters in the district. But they can still win the recall election by getting 50%+ of the votes.

I was mainly noting that not all the eligible WI state senators from either side are being recalled.

I get what you are saying, I was mainly responding to varus' poor comparison two unrelated events and how the one he brought up as an example that the dems aren't getting punished for their actions when they clearly are.

Yeah, there's been a significant amount of butthurt going around still, but not enough to really do anything. There was a big hubbub soon after Branstad took office, because the house tried to put up a bill called "The preservation of the morality of marriage act" (or something equally discriminatory) that would, of course, make same *** marriages illegal by amendment, and Branstad said if it reached his desk, he would sign it immediately. There was a pretty huge outcry against this bill, and it was shot down before it even was around for a couple of days.

I hate Iowa but I feel pretty lucky to live in a state where we do allow same-*** marriage. I'm a little fearful because for some reason we re-elected the stereotypically conservative people-pleaser Branstad, and he seems willing to undo any social progress we've had in the state over the past decade. Our only saving grace has been the democratic Senate - otherwise, *** marriage would have already been banned again, along with abortion. There's already been formal outcry from him specifically because one doctor from Omaha moved his practice across state lines because of our slightly more lax abortion laws. I dunno. The conservatives make a lot of talk and hoopla, but let's face it, they really haven't gotten **** done. They spent at least 3 weeks debating whether or not they should ban "K2", a synthetic marijuana substitute, because some teenage committed suicide after smoking it, but couldn't even get that done.

Heck, even the ones getting recalled might. The threshold for a recall petition is 15% of the registered voters in the district. But they can still win the recall election by getting 50%+ of the votes.I was mainly noting that not all the eligible WI state senators from either side are being recalled.

I get what you are saying, I was mainly responding to varus' poor comparison two unrelated events and how the one he brought up as an example that the dems aren't getting punished for their actions when they clearly are.

Just as a follow up, the good guys got six GOP state senators (every one eligible) into recall elections this summer. The bad guys got three Democratic state senators into recall elections and failed to get enough signatures for the other three petitions.

Heck, even the ones getting recalled might. The threshold for a recall petition is 15% of the registered voters in the district. But they can still win the recall election by getting 50%+ of the votes.I was mainly noting that not all the eligible WI state senators from either side are being recalled.

I get what you are saying, I was mainly responding to varus' poor comparison two unrelated events and how the one he brought up as an example that the dems aren't getting punished for their actions when they clearly are.

Just as a follow up, the good guys got six GOP state senators (every one eligible) into recall elections this summer. The bad guys got three Democratic state senators into recall elections and failed to get enough signatures for the other three petitions.

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Good for them! It's nice to see people get involved with politics. It looks like the people of Wisconsin don't like what the republicans are doing more than what the democrats didn't do.

My mistake, there were eight GOP state senators eligible for recall and six have had petitions filed against them.

Some of the senators are in solidly partisan districts where it's unlikely that they be under serious threat but if the Democrats come out with a net gain of three seats after the nine elections, it'll flip control in the state senate.